15: The 1629 Batavia Mutiny & Massacre w/ Mike Dash - A True Crime History Podcast

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Erik Rivenes

True Crime, History, Education

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2016

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Off of the coast of western Australia, the Dutch East India Company's state-of-the-art ship, the Batavia, wrecks on a reef in June of 1629. One of the officers on board, a failed apothecary named Jeronimus Corenlisz, is left in charge of the survivors and begins to slaughter them with terrible brutality. I'm joined by the author of "Batavia's Graveyard", Mike Dash, who tells this story in gruesome detail.

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0:00.0	This podcast contains adult themes and listener discretion is advised.
0:30.0	Welcome to another episode of the Most Notorious Podcast.
0:54.8	My name is Eric Rivenes and please does punch to have you here with me.
0:59.2	Okay, so make a nice cup of tea for this episode.
1:02.4	Perhaps flavored with nutmeg or some other spice favored by the Dutch East India Company.
1:09.4	We are traveling back to 1629 and the Western coast of Australia.
1:14.1	It is the tale of the Batavia, a Dutch ship on its way to buy spices when it suffers,
1:19.6	both a shipwreck and a mutiny of terrible proportions.
1:24.8	I'm very pleased today to be speaking to the author of Batavia's Graveyard.
1:30.1	It is a thrilling, jaw-dropping, absolutely horrific story brilliantly brought to life by
1:35.9	my guest, Mike Dash.
1:38.8	Thank you so much for agreeing to talk with me.
1:41.2	Pleasure.
1:42.6	So this book fires on so many cylinders.
1:45.1	It is a story about the vialist of villains, incredible heroes, and a plotline that exceeds
1:50.2	anything to ever come out of Hollywood.
1:52.4	And one of the most interesting characters in your book is not even human.
1:56.5	It is the Batavia, a marvel of naval engineering incredibly advanced in the 1620s, but at the
2:02.9	same time for modern readers of virtual hellhole on the high seas.
2:09.6	Tell us about this incredible ship and the Dutch East India Company that commissioned it.
2:15.5	Yes, I mean, the Dutch East India Company, the VOC, that's the Dutch Agreeviation of
2:21.0	its name, was founded in 1602 at the very beginning of the Dutch Age of Exploration.
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